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Sustainability Strategies

Topics: How their organizations define sustainability, the processes they use, the
outcomes they expect to achieve, and the tangible and intangible benefits of their
respective sustainability strategies.

Panel Bios

Mr. Garrett Boone is a Member of the Advisory Board of Satori Capital, L.L.C. He serves as the Chairman
Emeritus at The Container Store Inc. and served as Co-Chairman until July 2007. He
co-Founded Container Store Inc., in 1978 and served as its Chief Executive Officer.
In 2006, Mr. Boone co-founded Texas Business for Clean Air. He is active on the Boards
of Directors of the YMCA of the USA and the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas where he recently
concluded a successful $28 million capital campaign as chairman. He is on the Boards
of Directors of The Woodall Rogers Park Foundation, Trinity Trust Foundation, Trinity
Commons Foundation, The Boone Family Foundation, and TreeHouse, Inc. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at Texas Women Ventures Fund, LLP. He
is a member of the advisory boards for The Dallas Womens Foundation and Teach for
America. He served as an Advisory Director of Earful of Books, Inc. since July 6,
2001 and its Director from 1994 to June 2001. He is an advocate for public education
and serves on the Dallas ISD Star Commission to share best business practices with
DISD.

Nelly Andresen is an executive level professional with over 20 years of experience in business and
the practice of law with expertise in organizational development, environmental matters,
real estate, commercial transactions, employment and immigration. She is dedicated
to achieving measurable and beneficial results through focused, meaningful dialogue
and collaboration. Her specialties include ontract negotiation, dispute resolution,
international law, multi-party litigation, cross-functional project management, compliance.

eRecycling Solutions (now HYLA Mobile) is the worlds leading trade-in operator and redistributor of mobile devices. HYLA
helps consumers realize residual value from their used phones through immediate trade-in
programs by redistributing mobile technology to areas of the world with high demand
and expensive supply.

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Although she herself is not able to vote, Liz Magallanes, BA '18, works to make voting possible for other people. She first got involved with the organization Mi Familia Vota in 2014 and has been contributing to their endeavors ever since, including working with high school students in Dallas ISD. Additionally, she recently had a role in the play "Deferred Action."

When he began his career at UD, which was at the time a brand-new university, Al Ogletree built his ballfield out of a cow pasture in the Trinity River bottoms, teaching his boys about leadership as well as about the game they played.

Once friends at John Paul II High School in Plano, Texas, Stephanie Lobo, BA ’18, and Rebecca Luna, BA ’19, can both remember the moments they set their horizons on transferring to the University of Dallas. Though their paths diverged briefly following high school, their friendship is now reunited on our university’s Irving campus.

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